Mechanical movement



A. 8. WERIANE.

MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED no.5. 1918.

1,324,945. Patented Dec.16,1919,

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A. B. WERIANE.

MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 5. I9I8.

1 24,945. Patented Dec. 16, 1919.

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MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

APPLlCATlON FILED DEC-5,1918.

Patented Dec. 16,1919.

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Andrew B.Weriane UNITED srnrns PATENT curios.

. ANDREW B. wnnrAnn, or DENVER, COLORADO.

MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

Application filed December 5, 1918. Serial No. 265,461.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, ANDREW B. IVERIANE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver, and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Move ments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it 'appertains' to make and use the same.

This invention relates to mechanical movements and more particularly to an improved planetary gear train or organization.

It is one of the objects of the present invention to provide a novel planetary gear train and more particularly it is another object of the present invention to provide improvements in this type of mechanism wherein a master or annular member may be operatively connected to a set of plane tary gears which in turn are operatively connected to another set of planetary gears engaging a control or fixed gear whereby the desired movement of the organization and its respective elements may be secured.

WVith these and other objects in view as will be rendered manifest in the following specification, the invention consists in the construction, the combination, and in details and arrangement of parts to be more particularly set forth hereinafter relative to the embodiment of the invention illustrated in' the accompanying drawing, wherein,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the mechanism with one of its shafts being shown in section.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1 showing the shaft broken away.

Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the organization taken from the side opposite to that shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of one form of carrierfor the planetary gears.

Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation, with its shaft broken away showing a modified form of the invention and,

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the same, also showing the shaft broken away.

In the form of the organization illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4:, there is provided a master gear A, mounted on a shaft 2 which is supported in a journal or bearing 3; the rim of the gear A bein provided with a part 4 indicating means or the application of force or power to the wheel.

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Intermeshed with the teeth of theinternal gearA and disposed at diametrically opposite points thereof is a setofinternal pinions or gears 55 which are appropriately mounted .in the outer ends of radial arms or other suitable carrier. 6, mounted on a shaft 7, supported in abearing 8, which shaft alines with the shaft 2 so that the gears 5 may move in an orbit concentrioto the shaft axes 2 and 7 The planetary gears 5-5 are fixed on respective shafts 9 which have secured thereon sprocket pinions 10 over which run respective sprocket chains 11, engaging with sprocket wheels 12, turningabout respective axes 13,011 the carrler 6. Fixed to the gears 12 for rotation.

therewith about their respective axes'l3' are pinions' 1d meshing with an internal fixed gear 15, shown as connected to the bearing 8. From the above description it will be seen that upon a tendency of the rotation of the master wheel A in the direction of its arrow, the planetary gear train will by reason of the engagement of its pinions 14. with the fixed gear 15 tend to rotate the arms or carriers 6 in a direction reverse to that of the master internal gear A.

A similar result may be accomplished by the utilization of the modification of the invention which is illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. In this construction the carrier consists of a disk or plate 16, on which the shafts 9, with planetary gears 5 and their sprocket pinions 10 are mounted and also the pinions 14 engaging the fixed internal gear 15 but instead of employing the internal master gear A an endless sprocket chain 18 is utilized to engage the planetary gears 5, this chain being supported on sprockets l9, arranged around the edge of the plate or carrier 16. Therefore power applied to move the chain 18, as for instance, as is indicated by the weight 20, tends to move the planetary mechanism with the carrier 16 in the opposite direction.

In the drawing there is shown and hereinabove there is described the preferable form of this invention, but it will be understood that, without departing from the spirit of the invention, the gears 5 and pinions 14 and the parts forming the operative connection between the gears 5 and pinions 14, may be decreased to one each or increased to any desired number each. Also it will be understood that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim is: 7'

1. A gear organization comprising a fixed gear, a pair of pinions engaging the same; a rotary carrier on which the pinions are mounted, the carrier having an axis alined' with that of the fixed gear; outer planetary gears operatively connected to the pinions and also mounted on the carrier to turn therewith about its axis; and an annular member operatively connected to the planetary gears and concentric to the axis of the carrler. v

2. A gear organization comprising a fixed gear, a pair of pinions engaging the same; a rotary carrier on which the pinions are mounted, the carrier having an axis alined with that of the fixed gear; outer planetary gears operatiyely connected to the pinions and also mounted on the carrier to turn therewith about its axis; and an annular rotary member operatively connected to the planetary gears and turning about concentric to the axis of the carrier.

3. A gear organization comprising a fixed internal gear, a pair of pinions engaging the same; a rotary carrier on which the pinions are mounted, the carrier having an axis alined with that of the fixed gear; outer planetary gears and a sprocket chain mechanism operatively connecting the pinions and the planetary gears and also mounted on the carrier to turn therewith about its axis; and an annular member 0peratively connected to the planetary gears and concentric to the axis of the carrier.

4s A gear organization comprising a fixed orbit gear, pinions engaging the same; a rotary carrier on which the pinions are mounted, the carrier having an axis alined with that of the fixed gear; outer planetary gears and transmitting means for opera tiyely connecting them to the pinions and also mounted on the carrier to turn there with about its axis; and an internal master gear engaging the planetarygears.

5. A gear organization comprising a fixed orbit gear, a pinion engaging or rolling about the same; a rotary carrier on which the pinion is mounted, the carrier having an axis alined with that of: the fixed gear: an outer planetary gear and transmitting means operatiyely connecting it to the pinion and also mounted on the carrier to turn therewith about its. axis; and an annular member operatively connected to the planetary gear and concentric to the axis of the carrier.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ANDREW B. WERIANE. 

